Posted on 03/10/2007 8:06:48 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
Federal police detained 81 Chinese immigrants and 22 immigration agents on Friday after the Chinese were discovered hiding in the Cancún airport terminal, possibly with the protection of Mexican immigration officers
Sábado 10 de marzo de 2007
CANCÚN - Federal police detained 81 Chinese immigrants and 22 immigration agents on Friday after the Chinese were discovered hiding in the Cancún airport terminal, possibly with the protection of Mexican immigration officers.
The 53 Chinese men and 28 women arrived on a flight from Europe late Thursday.
Because of a lack of interpreters, police were unable to glean more details.
"We don´t have all the information. What we can confirm is that 81 Chinese citizens were detained this morning at the airport," said Guadalupe Cerino, a spokeswoman for the federal Attorney General´s Office (PGR). "We still do not have details on how they entered Mexico."
Federal police doing routine patrols found the Chinese in the airport, apparently accompanied by agents of the National Immigration Institute, police said.
When police asked the immigration officers what they were doing with the immigrants, they gave contradictory explanations, leading police to detain both them and the Chinese, police said.
In the past, some immigration officers have been known to allow or help undocumented immigrants on their way to Mexico´s northern border - where they usually try to enter the United States - in exchange for bribes.
The immigrants were taken to the local offices of the PGR.
The immigration officers were being held for questioning at separate offices, police said.
Police were waiting for interpreters to interview the Chinese immigrants and determine whether the immigration agents were involved in a scheme to smuggle them to the United States.
Ping!
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Corruption in Mexico??! Perish the thought .....
Seems that it would have been easier for them to go straight from China to Mexico (then up to the United States).
And miss Cancun? Besides, the triangle fare is cheaper.
If this kind of stuff continues in Mexico, they not only won't have any local police, but no customs agents either, that aren't in custody.
That just brings us to the final problem: Once they're all in jail, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Those horrible Chinese-hating Mexicans! Don't they see the damage they're doing, splitting up families and putting in jail people who just wanted a better life? Give them citizenship and let them stay!
At least that's what we'd be hearing if the pro-illegals were honest.
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Anybody want to bet they make it to the US?
Does anyone seriously believe that the 'officials' in Mexico would let anybody and anything through to the USA for right bribe? They're probably already is Al Queda training camps in Mexico. They're getting really good at the beheadings down there too!
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